The Quarrel over Future Contingents (Louvain 1465-1475)
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[Book]
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edited by N. Kretzmann, G. Nuchelmans.
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Dordrecht
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Springer Netherlands
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1989
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(468 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy, 36.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. The Problem --;2. The Historical Context --;3. Dramatic Personae --;4. The Quarrel --;5. The Conclusion --;6. The Doctrinal and Historical Interest --;One --;Statute of the University of Louvain in the Year 1447 --;Quodlibetal Question Disputed at Louvain in 1465 by Peter de Rivo --;Another Treatise of Peter de Rivo (1) --;Another Treatise of Peter de Rivo (2) --;Fragments from Peter de Rivo --;Petition of Peter de Rivo --;Peter de Rivo's Theses --;Replies of Peter de Rivo --;Record of the Time of Events --;A Brief Treatise on Future Contingents by Francis, Cardinal of St Peter in Chains --;An Anonymous Treatise on the Subject of Future Contingents --;Treatise of Master Fernand of Cordova --;An Anonymous Treatise on the Truths of Future Contingents Against Peter de Rivo --;Interrogations --;Replies of Peter de Rivo --;Sentence of the Rector against Henry de Zomeren --;Conclusion of the Faculty of Theology at Cologne --;Conclusion of the Theologians at Louvain --;Conclusion of the Paris Theologians --;Two --;Henry de Zomeren's Treatise --;Propositions of Peter de Rivo Assembled by Henry de Zomeren --;Treatise of Peter de Rivo in Reply to a Certain Little Work of Henry de Zomeren --;Additional Replies by Peter de Rivo --;Another Version --;An Anonymous Defense of the Sentence of the University --;A Defense of the Sentence against Henry de Zomeren --;Letter of the University of Louvain to Pope Sixtus IV --;Superscription of the Letter sent to the University of Louvain in Recommendation of Peter de Rivo --;Appendix I. Explanations by Peter de Rivo of Certain Objections Concerning about Future Contingents --;Appendix II. A Probable Plan for a Quodlibetal --;Appendix III. Fragment from Peter de Rivo to Paul of Middelbourgh --;Notes.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The Latin texts collected by Leon Baudry present the late fifteenth- century debate at the University of Louvain over the truth-value of proposi- tions about future contingent events, a subject of perennial interest in phil osophy.